re: #262 Vicious Babushka

All movie and TV use 555 (non-assigned) prefix for all phone numbers shown on screen, in order to avoid people randomly calling somebody’s real number that they saw on TV.

I can’t cite specifics, but I have recently noticed phone exchanges other than 555 being used. I presume they’re still inoperative numbers, but I didn’t bother testing it. It *might* have been Breaking Bad, but I’m not sure.

I wonder if they also use invalid license plate numbers. If you went to your DMV and requested a vanity plate with a number that appeared in a movie, would they reject it?